Combination-tool.



PATENTED JULY 30, 1907.

H. E. LOESOHNER & M. LESAR.

COMBINATION TOOL. APPLICATION rum) DIE-06,1906.

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COMBINATION-TQOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed December 6, 1906i 4 Serial No. 346,599.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY F. LOESCHNER and MOSES LESAR, citizens of the United States, residing at Tamms, in the county of Alexander and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention is an improved combination tool for use as a shingling, flooring, ceiling and weatherboarding hammer, and also for jointing purposes and for splitting shingles, drawing nails and the like, and it consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a side elevation of a combination tool embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, taken on the plane indicated by the line aa of Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same, taken'on the plane indicated by the line b.b of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a detail sectional perspective View illustrating a modification.

In the embodiment of our invention. we form a hammer head 1 with claws 2 at one end and with the usual eye 3 for the reception of the handle. On the outer side of the hammer is formed a projection 4, which is provided with a longitudinal slot 5, open at one end, and at the outer side. In the said slot is pivotally mounted a blade 5, which when open bears against the closed end of the slot. A spring 6 is provided to coact with the blade and keep the latter either in a closed or an open position. At one side of the hammer is a jointing or planing edge 7, which is oblique and extends transversely on said side, and in the form of our invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, is formed integrally with the hammer. The latter is also formed with an opening 8, which extends therethrough and which affords clearance for the cuttings from the said edge 7. Said cutting edge in the form of our invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, projects beyond the side of the hammer on which the same is disposed.

In the modified form of our invention, shown in Fig. 4, we provide a removable bit 9, which is provided on its inner side with corrugations 10 to engage similar corrugations on the opposite surface 11 oithe hammer. The said bit is provided with an opening 12 to receive a clamping screw 13. The said clamping screw is provided with a circular head 14 having. ratchet teeth 15, which are engaged by a spring pawl 16 which is mounted on the bit 9. When the latter is adjusted and the clamping screw set to hold the same in adjusted position, the spring pawl engages the clamping screw and holds the latter against reverse turning, and hence prevents said clamping screw and the bit from becoming loosened casually after having been set.

Our improved combination tool may be used for all the purposes of a hammer and for laying flooring, shingles, ceiling and weatherboarding. When employed for laying shingles, the blade is extremely useful in splitting such shingles as required. In laying flooring, ceiling or weatherboarding, the cutting edge 7 is exceedingly useful in jointing, performing all of the lunctions of a block plane for such purpose.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is,--

A tool head provided with an opening having one of its Walls corrugated, a plane bit arranged to bear on said corrugated wall and having corrugations to engage those on the wall, said bit being provided with a longitudinal slot, a clamping screw entered through said slot and engaged with the wall for holding the bit in place, said screw having its head provided with ratchet teeth and a pawl movably mounted on the bit and adapted for engagement with said teeth to iix the screw in clamping position.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hand I in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY F. LOESCHNER.

MOSES LIGSAR.

Witnesses Con Manner, WALTER L. Sounts. 

